It was being passed around late Monday night/early Tuesday morning and I thought for sure it would have been shared here. Not one mention on this forum or in the Selection Sunday/college basketball thread.

Further proof this is sportsjournalists.com in name only. Wasn't all that long ago that something like this would be dissected and analyzed as to why it works so well. Maybe even Chuck would show up to add more details on how it came to pass.

Guess that's not happening here. Well, I for one was blown away by the piece. Kudos to Chuck.

I enjoyed the story. It was close to being overwritten for my tastes, but in this case, I saw it more as the story immediately cluing you in that it really was an all-time great game. I can't imagine being able to pump out something like that on deadline.

I enjoyed the story. It was close to being overwritten for my tastes, but in this case, I saw it more as the story immediately cluing you in that it really was an all-time great game. I can't imagine being able to pump out something like that on deadline.

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I'll take it a step farther and say it's quite overwritten, especially the lede. Had some great stuff in there, but I was rolling my eyes two grafs in.

Before that last push for a basket, Ochefu grabbed the floor mop from the boy who had been using it and vigorously — and, at the time, inexplicably — began to wipe the sweat off the floor, at about midcourt. He knew that he had to set a pick there for Arcidiacono, and that Arcidiacono was supposed to head to the basket from there. Ochefu wanted that area to be very dry, so Arcidiacono wouldn’t slip. After all, he was expecting Arcidiacono to take that final shot. In fact, he had kind of demanded him to take it.